SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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members at a meeting, and he hoped it was not lack of 
interest in the profession, but simply due to unavoidable 
circumstances. 
Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The 
bills of the Secretary were duly presented and approved. 
The Secretary read a large amount of correspondence— 
too much to refer to each individually. 
The request of Dr. Elliot, of Greenville, for a withdrawal, 
vvas read, and the Secretary instructed that the same be 
granted after the doctor comply with certain laws of the 
issociation. 
A communication, accompanied with a large amount of 
crinted matter, was received from Miss Cecelia Ritter; ask- 
ng for the association’s condemnation of vivisection, and its 
signature to a petition asking for its total abolishment. 
The association refused its signature, as the members pres¬ 
ent thought restricted vivisection was a great benefit to the 
luman family. They admitted that the practice was often 
carried beyond the realms of common sense or science, and 
Tat this should be restricted by law. The Secretary was so 
nstructed to inform Miss Ritter. 
The remainder of the evening was taken up in a social 
vay, and in the discussion of a few unique and interesting 
operations. Adjourned at 11 P.M. to meet the following morn- 
ng at 9 A.M. 
The morning meeting was called to order at 9.30 A.M., 
vith Dr. J. C. Meyer, Jr., in the chair. 
The following cases were reported by Dr. S. E. Bretz, of 
Tittle Sundusky, O.: 
I was reqested at our annual meeting in 1894 to read 
i paper on tracheotomy at the following semi-annual meeting, 
'lot being able to meet with the members of this association 
iccounts for the delay of this paper. Instead of describing 
he operation from a scientific standpoint, and referring to 
he diseases that might be associated with the operation, 1 
vill refer to cases that came in my practice. 
Patient No. i. —Subject was a chestnut mare, ten years 
